US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 10 for "Methods and apparatus to identify user presence to a meter" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,808, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to identify user presence to a meter" was invented by David Watts (Lutz, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions to at least: obtain presence information from a configuration device, the configuration device separate from the apparatus, the presence information indicating that user is present at the apparatus; verify th...